Director, Complex & Large Deals

Central & Eastern Europe HQ Microsoft Romania

 

Ovidiu Artopolescu, 50 years, joined Microsoft Romania in March 1999 as Business Development Manager for the partnership with the independent software vendors, systems integrators and in-house developers.

In 2000, Ovidiu received the President Award during the Microsoft Global Summit in Atlanta and in 2001 he was promoted as Enterprise and Partners Group Manager. In May 2004 he became Executive Director of Microsoft Romania and starting July 2005, he was appointed as General Manager of Microsoft Romania. Currently, Ovidiu is
the Director, Complex & Large Deals, Central & Eastern Europe HQ for Microsoft Romania.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Ovidiu worked three years for IBM Romania as Project Manager and Quality Assurance Manager, covering mainly the Romanian Customs and the Ministry of Finance projects, 12 years as senior researcher in the Institute for Computers (computer testing lab. and computer assisted simulators lab.) and three years as systems engineer in Petrom (OMV)
Ovidiu graduated from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Computer Science Department) in 1981 and University of Bucharest (Faculty of Mathematics) in 1992. In 1994, he attended on job training on management in Huntsville, Alabama - scholarship sponsored by the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Space Center Integrated Inc.
Ovidiu currently lives in Bucharest together with his wife and 12 years son.
He is fluent in English and French and enjoys traveling, playing tennis and bridge. 
Favorite book   - “How to work for an idiot” by John Hoover.
Favorite poem  - “If” by Rudyard Kipling